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December 1995 |
Worldwide Use More than 106 million women worldwide are using IUDs, according to estimates based on findings of the Demographic and Health Surveys and similar surveys (see Table 2). Thus the IUD is the second most commonly used family planning method, after voluntary female sterilization (see Population Reports, Number One and Growing, Series C, No. 10, November 1990) and the most commonly used reversible method. The high numbers are attributable to China, where about two-thirds of the world's IUD users live. In most countries that have conducted more than one representative sample survey of contraceptive prevalence, IUD use has remained stable or increased since the 1970s. Where voluntary sterilization and injectable contraceptives are available, however, use of these methods has usually grown faster than IUD use (391). |